Pocket purse



W. G. SCHAEFFER POCKET PURSE Filed July 24, 1955 INVENTOR BY wwwPatented Oct. 1, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in pocket purses and moreparticularly to a pocket container having a plurality of separate usefuland handy compartments.

It is proposed in accordance with the present invention to provide anovel pocket purse suitable for holding money, license papers, callingcards and any other like articles, and to provide such a purse which iscompact and still has easy accessibility to the various compartmentsthereof. It is further proposed to provide a single opening and closingmeans for the two main compartments whereby a partial operation of thefastening means provides access to one compartment containing thelicense papers, etc., and the full operation of the fastening means willprovide access to the other compartment containing coins, etc. Stillfurther, by attaching a single thickness of material the same shape asthe purse or preferably a billfold, to one of the sides of said purse,an open end compartment is formed which is found to be very useful forcalling cards, etc.

The above various features of the invention and the construction of theseveral compartments thereof will be more fully described as thedescription progresses, during which reference will be made to theaccompanying drawing, in which:-

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of the back side of a pocket purseconstructed in accordance with the present invention, showing thegeneral shape of the purse with the top fastening means partially openedand showing a billfold attached thereto.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Figs. 1and 3, and Viewed in the direction of the arrows, this view mainlyshowing the various compartments resulting from the combination purseand billfold shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. .3 is a front perspective View of the article shown in the twoprevious views and more clearly shows the purse and the compartmenttherein and the complete opening and closing means thereof.

Referring more particularly to Fig. 2 of the drawing, the main body ofthe purse is formed with two pieces of substantially rectangular shapedleather or other suitable flexible material as I and 2, placed side byside, the bottom end of piece I being turned under and up to meet piece2 and form a bottom for the purse, the two pieces forming asubstantially U-shape when sewed together at the bottom where they meet.A rectangular shaped partition piece 3 is then inserted therebetween.The complete structure is then sewed together as follower-First sew thethree pieces together on the left-hand side (see Fig. 3), this procedureclosing up the left.side of the U-shaped main body. Next the partition 5piece 3 is sewed to piece I at the top and piece 2 at the bottom (seeFig. 2). This partition piece El is somewhat longer than pieces I and 2and this extra length is bent backward and forward at the right-hand endagainst the main part of piece 3 to form a gusset as shown at 4 (seeFig. 3) and the extreme end is then also sewed to piece 2 at theright-hand end.

We now have a purse structure having two separate compartments ofsubstantially the same size, one compartment 5 having an end opening iiand another compartment 'l having a top opening t. A slide fastener orother suitable fastening means 9 having a slider Ill, is then employedto close the right-hand end and the top of the purse. It should be notedthat a partial movement of the slider IU up the right-hand end of thepurse (slightly less than shown in Fig.

3) will expose opening 6 and allow entrance into compartment 5 withoutexposing opening 8 and 25 disturbing the contents of compartment `'I. Afurther and complete movement across the top of the purse of the sliderI0 will expose opening 8 and allow entrance to compartment I withoutfurther exposing the contents of compartment 5. It is intended thatcompartment 5 will be used for license papers, etc., and compartment Iwill be used for coins, etc., although it should be understood that anyother articles could be carried as the owner desires.

The above description pertains strictly to a double compartment pocketpurse and could be considered a unit in itself and used as such.However, as shown in the drawing, it is proposed to attach another unitII such as a billfold etc., or a single rectangular shaped piece ofleather to the pocket purse, this second unit II to be attached to theback piece 2 of the pocket purse unit by sewing or other suitable meansat the bottom and both ends, thereby forming a compartment I2 betweenthe two units which has an opening I3 at the top. This compartment I2 issuitable for calling cards, etc., or for folded currency in case asingle piece of leather is used in place of a billfold.

It should be noted at this time that no attempt will be made to claim acombination pocket purse and billfold as it is understood that this artis old.

It is believed that the above description is sufficient to point out thevarious features of this invention and make it clear to be understood,and it is desired to be understood that various modifications,adaptations and alterations may be made therein without departing fromthe spirit or scope of the present invention, except as limited by theappended claim.

Having thus'shown and described my invention, what I claim isz- A pocketpurse comprising a rectangular shaped Ymain -body portion of flexiblematerial substantially U-shaped in cross section and closed in at oneend, a partition piece of flexible material inserted within said bodyportion and fastened therein in such a wayas to form two substantiallyequal sized compartments each including but one side of the U-shape'dbody portion and each with a single opening, with the openings facing atapproximately 90 degrees to each other, a single interlocking fasteningmeans attached to the two open sides of the structure and opera,- ble tocompletely close the openings of said two compartments.

' WILLIAM G. SCHAEF'FER..

